The vulnerability of the btrfs_get_root_ref() function in the fs/btrfs/disk-io.c file of the Linux kernel’s file system allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the btrfsgetrootref function in the fs/btrfs/disk-io.c file of the Linux kernel’s file system is related to the repeated release of a reserved memory block. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

AZL-33969 CVE-2024-23850 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.153.1-1

In btrfsgetrootref in fs/btrfs/disk-io.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.1, there can be an assertion failure and crash because a subvolume can be read out too soon after its root item is inserted upon subvolume creation...